Robert B. Swift is a native of western New York and the author of The Mid-Appalachian Frontier: A Guide to Historic Sites of the French and Indian War. (2001) He is a veteran journalist with a career spanning four decades. Much of that career has been spent as a statehouse reporter in Harrisburg, PA. Swift graduated from Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, with a bachelor’s degree in American studies in 1974. He lives in Grantham, PA.